Media, Keynote, and HTML widgets can now play in place on the page of your book.

Widgets can also be set to auto-play on the page when your readers reach that page in the book.

Additional Apple-designed templates

iBooks Author includes new Landscape with Portrait and Portrait Only templates.

What's new in iBooks Author 2.0

Create new gorgeous portrait-only books

iBooks Author now supports portrait-only books with complete control of layout.

Starting with a Portrait Only template enables creation of books in fixed portrait orientation, and the orientation switching UI will be disabled in iBooks Author.

Instead of using the text flow format of a landscape book in portrait orientation, portrait-only books provide the same navigation, table of contents, and interaction as would be available to a landscape book in landscape orientation.

Embed custom fonts into books for complete control over text appearance

Support for TrueType (.ttf) and OpenType (.otf) fonts.

Font files are obfuscated (protected) when they are written into the iBooks file on publish or export.

The author or publisher must secure appropriate rights to the fonts used (in keeping with similar rights for use of images, text, and media).

The author can supply a custom play/pause image. Only one image may be supplied (not different images for play and pause).

Improved publishing workflow

iBooks Author leads the author through a series of screens to ensure a simpler publishing process.

iBooks Author checks the book for errors before exporting it for iTunes Producer.

Authors are presented with the option to automatically create a sample book based on a selected chapter.

Version numbering for books

Authors must enter a new version number when publishing an update to a book already available on the iBooks Store.

Authors must enter a version number when exporting a book.

Authors may not enter a version number when exporting a book as a sample.

About the Version Number:

iBooks Author supplies a default version number of 1.0.

The version number is displayed with the book on the iBooks Store.

About the Version Number format:

Use dot-separated integers, with a maximum of two dots, three components, and four integers per component. For example: 1111.1111.1111

Initial zeros are ignored. 1.01 is read as 1.1

1.10 is considered larger than 1.9.

Letters are not permitted.

Readers upgrading to a new version of a book will have highlights, notes, and bookmarks preserved in the new version.

Enhanced to take advantage of the Retina display on the new MacBook Pro

iBooks Author takes full advantage of the MacBook Pro with Retina display, providing a wonderful experience with vivid graphics and sharp text.

Additional Apple-designed templates

iBooks Author includes new Landscape with Portrait and Portrait Only templates.

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